CanLit Scholars

Email:b.almon@ualberta.ca

Phone:(780)492-3258

Address:University of Alberta, 3-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5, Canada

Institution:University of Alberta

Bio:Bert Almon teaches modern literature and creative writing at the University of Alberta.

Fields of Interest:(21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Life Writing) (Poetry)

Email:cascabelnon@gmail.com

Phone:34 651607004

Website:http://webpages.ull.es/users/filina/

Address:University La Laguna Tenerife spain

Institution:ULL La Laguna

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (Regionalism) (Satire) (Short Stories) (Women's Writing)

Email:jandrews@unb.ca

Phone:506-458-7403

Fax:506-453-5069

Website:http://www.unbf.ca/arts/english/faculty_cvs/cv_jandrews.htm

Address:Room #247, Carleton Hall, Department of English, UNB, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3

Institution:University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Bio:I have just finished a SSHRC-funded manuscript for the University of Toronto Press titled -In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in the Work of Contemporary Native North American Women Poets-. The book includes analyses of the poetry of Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Louise Halfe, Kim Blaeser, Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, and Marie Annharte Baker. I am beginning work on a co-authored book with Percy Walton that explores the relationship between television and fashion in a North American context.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (History) (Maritime) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Parody) (Poetry) (Satire) (Transnationalism)

Email:salybant@interchange.ubc.ca

Address:University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Sarah Banting is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia. She is currently at work on her dissertation, entitled "Common Ground and the City: Assumed Community in Vancouver Fiction and Theatre."

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction) (Language) (Regionalism) (Short Stories)

Email:jbattis@fastmail.fm

Website:http://www.authorjesbattis.com

Address:Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada

Institution:Simon Fraser University

Bio:Jes Battis is a postdoctoral scholar in queer studies at the City University of New York. He specializes in LGBT youth writing, fantasy literature, and Indigenous Two-Spirit cultures of Canada and the United States. He currently lives in Montreal

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Children's) (First Nations) (Gay & Lesbian) (Quebec) (Science Fiction) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:baxterl@uoguelph.ca

Address:50 Pearl Street North, Hamilton, Ontario, L8R 2Y8, Canada

Institution:University of Guelph

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (British) (Contemporary) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Films)

Email:gmb@interchange.ubc.ca

Website:http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/gmbaxter

Address:University of British Columbia, English Department, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Gisèle M. Baxter lives in Vancouver, and has been a sessional lecturer in the English Department at UBC since 1997.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Children's) (Fiction) (Speculative Fiction) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:beau@interchange.ubc.ca

Phone:(604)822-4023

Address:University of British Columbia, Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Réjean Beaudoin is Professor Emeritus in the department of French, Hispanic and Italian studies at UBC. He is the author of Naissance d’une littérature. Essai sur le messianisme et les débuts de la littérature canadienne-française 1850-1890 (1989) and Le Roman québécois (1991). He has published several articles on the contemporary Québécois novel.

Fields of Interest:(Francophone) (Quebec)

Email:guy@mx.nthu.edu.tw

Address:101, Section 2, Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan

Institution:National Tsing Hua University

Bio:Guy Beauregard teaches in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, where he is directing the Empire and Overseas Literature Project. His recent projects include "Pacific Canada" (2007), a special issue of Amerasia Journal co-edited with Henry Yu; and "Asian Canadian Studies" (2008), a special issue of Canadian Literature co-edited with Yiu-nam Leung.

Fields of Interest:(Asian-American) (Asian-Canadian) (Canadian Studies) (Diaspora Studies) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial)

Email:lee.bessette@gmail.com

Institution:University of Kentucky

Bio:Dr. Skallerup Bessette has an MA from the Université de Sherbrooke in Comparative Canadian Literature, where she wrote on contemporary Canadian dystopias. Her PhD in Comparative Literature is from the University of Alberta, where she taught the Intro to Comparative Canadian Literature course. She wrote on the English translations of Anne Hébert's poetry. She is now an independent scholar, working on Caribbean-Canadian writers, especially Nalo Hopkinson and Dany Laferrière.

Fields of Interest:(Auto/biography) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Francophone) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Quebec) (Satire) (Science Fiction) (Speculative Fiction) (Transnationalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:tblackmo@uwo.ca

Phone:519-661-2111 x.88513

Fax:519-661-3506

Website:http://www.fims.uwo.ca/whoswho/facultypage.htm?PeopleId=3669

Address:University of Western Ontario, North Campus Building Room 240,  London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Bio:Tim Blackmore writes about popular culture (comics, graphic novels, film, animation and anime, SF) and war (War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace, U of T 2005). He teaches courses in war, popular culture, trauma, memory and technology.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Art) (Culture) (Fiction) (Films) (Science Fiction) (Speculative Fiction) (Trauma Studies) (War)

Email:jennifer.blair@uottawa.ca

Address:Department of English, University of Ottawa 70 Laurier Ave. E, Rm 338 Ottawa ON K2P 0G7

Institution:University of Ottawa

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (21st Century) (Architecture) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Exploration) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Gay & Lesbian) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Language) (Politics) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing)

Email:bock.maxime@courrier.uqam.ca

Address:Université du Québec à Montréal, Case postale 8888, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Quebec, H3C 3P8, Canada

Institution:Université du Québec à Montréal

Bio:Assistant de recherche au Laboratoire international d’étude multidisciplinaire comparée des représentations du Nord, Université du Québec à Montréal.

Fields of Interest:(First Nations) (North, The) (Poetry) (Quebec) (Settler Writing)

Email:sbose@interchange.ubc.ca

Phone:(604)822-2344

Address:University of British Columbia, Buchanan Tower 422, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Sarika P. Bose teaches fiction, drama, children’s literature and nineteenth century British studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Fields of Interest:

Email:nbradley@uvic.ca

Phone:(250) 721 7273

Fax:(250) 721-6498

Address:Department of English University of Victoria PO Box 3070, STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 3W1, CANADA

Institution:University of Victoria

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Criticism) (Ecocriticism) (First Nations) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism)

Email:briggsm@interchange.ubc.ca

Phone:(604)822-4088

Fax:(604)822-6906

Address:University of British Columbia, Buchanan Tower 3rd Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Marlene Briggs teaches at the University of British Columbia.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Life Writing) (Trauma Studies) (War)

Email:Daniel.Burgoyne@viu.ca

Phone:(250)753-3245 Ext. 2126

Address:Vancouver Island University, 900 Fifth Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 5S5, Canada

Institution:Vancouver Island University

Bio:Daniel Burgoyne teaches at Vancouver Island University. He is the co-author of The New Century Handbook; an associate author of Janet Giltrow's Academic Writing: An Introduction; and editor of the Broadview Press Edition of James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (forthcoming in 2010). He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Washington, where his work focused on transatlantic romanticism. He has published and given talks on romanticism, the Gothic, literary theory, and hoaxes.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (American) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Fiction) (Poetry) (Speculative Fiction)

Email:sbutlin@connect.carleton.ca

Bio:Susan Butlin holds a Ph.D. in Canadian Studies from Carleton University, and her areas of interest include 19th and early 20th century Canadian cultural history, including Canadian art and literature of the period. Her first book, The Practice of Her Profession: Florence Carlyle, A Canadian Painter in the Age of Impressionism, published by McGill-Queen's University Press, (March 1, 2009), is the first book in the new McGill-Queen's / Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History series. http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2319

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (Art) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Feminism) (History) (Women's Writing)

Email:caldera@ms.umanitoba.ca

Phone:(204)474-8280

Address:University of Manitoba, 625 Fletcher Argue Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 5V5, Canada

Institution:University of Manitoba

Bio:Alison Calder teaches Canadian literature and creative writing in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. Her poetry collection, Wolf Tree, won two Manitoba Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. She is the co-editor of History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies; the editor of Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn; and the editor of a critical edition of Settlers of the Marsh by Frederick Philip Grove. She writes primarily on prairie literature and culture.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Regionalism) (Settler Writing)

Email:calderon@sfu.ca

Address:Department of French, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6

Institution:Simon Fraser University

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Culture) (Films) (France) (Francophone) (Gay & Lesbian) (Multicultural) (Quebec) (Transnationalism)

Email:kcarter@wlu.ca

Phone:(519)756-8228 ext.5741

Address:Wilfrid Laurier University, 124 Grand River Hall, Brantford, Ontario, N3T 2Y3, Canada

Institution:Wilfrid Laurier University

Bio:Kathryn Carter is the associate dean at Laurier Brantford where she teaches English and Contemporary Studies.

Kathryn Carter is an assistant professor of English and Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford.

Kathryn Carter is an assistant professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford). Her most recent book is The Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada (University of Toronto Press: 2002).

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Feminism) (Life Writing) (War)

Email:paulomi@ualberta.ca

Address:#811, 175 Bath Rd. Kingston, ON

K7M 7K9

Institution:University of Alberta

Bio:I am a final-year PhD student at the University of Alberta. 

Fields of Interest:(Feminism) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (South Asian) (Trauma Studies)

Email:ncharest@uottawa.ca

Phone:613-562-5800 ex. 1109

Website:http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/lettres/charest.html

Address:#1-677 rue MacLaren, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 5L1, Canada

Institution:U Ottawa

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (Art) (France) (Long Poem) (Maritime) (Modern) (Poetry)

Email:hooksumschool@hotmail.com

Phone:(250)670-1120

Website:http://www.hooksumschool.com

Address:PO Box 352, Tofino, British Columbia, V0R 2Z0, Canada

Institution:Hooksum Outdoor School

Bio:Karen Charleson is part of the House of Kinquashtacumlth, a member of the Hesquiaht First Nation, and a resident of traditional Hesquiaht territories. Karen recently completed a Master of Arts in Integrated Studies with a specialization in Cultural Studies through Athabasca University.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Diaspora Studies) (First Nations) (Postcolonial)

Email:lcho3@uwo.ca

Phone:(519)661-2111 ext.84310

Fax:(519)661-3776 ext.83776

Website:http://www.uwo.ca/english/site/fcltypgs/chol.html

Address:University of Western Ontario, Department of English, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Bio:Lily Cho is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Fields of Interest:(Asian-American) (Asian-Canadian) (Diaspora Studies) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:nathalie.cooke@mcgill.ca

Phone:(514)398-4213

Fax:(514)398-5452

Address:McGill University, 213 Dawson Hall, 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Quebec, H3A 2T6, Canada

Institution:McGill University

Bio:Nathalie Cooke is Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, in McGill’s Faculty of Arts and Series Editor of the Arts Insights Series (McGill-Queen’s University Press).

Fields of Interest:

Email:penelope.cormier@mail.mcgill.ca

Address:5894, rue de la Roche, Montréal, Quebec, H2S 2C7, Canada

Institution:McGill University

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (France) (Maritime) (Postcolonial) (Quebec) (Regionalism)

Email:lisa.coulthard@ubc.ca

Address:University of British Columbia, Suite 2354A Brock Hall Annex, 1874 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Fields of Interest:(21st Century) (Culture) (Films) (Multimedia)

Email:tcowan@ualberta.ca

Phone:780-454-8287

Fax:780-492-8243

Address:Department of English & Film Studies 3-5 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G2E5

Institution:U of Alberta

Bio:T.L. Cowan's Ph.D. dissertation is entitled "Vox Populi: The Genealogies, Cultures, and Politics of Spoken Word Performance in Canada." Her research is energized by interests in feminist, gender, and queer studies as well as in theories of cultural production, Canadian literary culture, and poetics and literary performance in Canada. Her upcoming project is a major study entitled, "Viscera & Ephemera: Feminist Grass-Roots Performance in Canada 1983-2008." T.L. is also a spoken word/performance artist with a lively performance and curating practice. She is currently working with several Edmonton artists on an collaborative inter-media show of her performance cycle, "The Twisted She Poems."

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Gay & Lesbian) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Poetry) (Politics)

Email:pawprint@mts.net

Address:210-1047 Bairdmore Blvd., Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 5H3, Canada

Institution:University of Manitoba

Bio:Karen Crossley is a PhD Candidate at the University of Manitoba.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (American) (British) (Children's) (Fiction) (Modern) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:pilar.cuder@dfing.uhu.es

Institution:University of Huelva, Spain

Bio:Pilar Cuder-Domínguez is Associate Professor at the University of Huelva (Spain), where she teaches British and English-Canadian Literature. Her research interests are the intersections of gender, genre, nation, and race. She is the author of Margaret Atwood: A Beginner’s Guide (2003), and the (co)editor of five collections of essays (La mujer del texto al contexto, 1996; Exilios femeninos, 2000; Sederi XI, 2002; Espacios de Género, 2005; and The Female Wits, 2006.). She has been visiting scholar at universities in Canada, the US and the UK: McGill (1997), Dalhousie (1999), Northwestern (2002), Toronto (2004 & 2007), and Cambridge (2006). Her latest publications have discussed the works of writers of Black and Asian ancestry in the UK and Canada. She is currently at work on two (co)edited collections of essays on the Black Atlantic.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Asian-Canadian) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Diaspora Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (Postcolonial) (Science Fiction) (Speculative Fiction) (Transnationalism) (Trauma Studies) (Women's Writing)

Email:2clc2@queensu.ca

Address:6-51 Stanley Street, Kingston, Ontario, K7K 1Y2, Canada

Institution:Queen's University

Bio:Cheryl Cundell recently completed her Ph.D. at Queen's University.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Colonial) (Exploration) (Nature Writing) (Postcolonial) (Travel)

Email:susiedecoste at gmail dot com

Institution:University of Waterloo

Bio:Susie DeCoste holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from The University of New Brunswick and is currently a PhD student of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. She is writing a dissertation on the relationships of modernism and feminism to regionalism in Maritime Canadian literature. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in journals such as The Antigonish Review, Arc, CV2, The Danforth Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Poetry Ireland Review, The Toronto Quarterly, and Qwerty.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Feminism) (Language) (Long Poem) (Maritime) (Modern) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:jdelisle@ualberta.ca

Phone:(604)224-5443

Website:http://delisle.jennifer.googlepages.com/home

Address:308 - 1688 Cypress Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6J 5J1, Canada

Institution:University of Alberta

Bio:Jennifer Delisle is a Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. Her interests include diaspora studies, second-generation narratives, Newfoundland literature, and theories of nostalgia.

Fields of Interest:(Asian-Canadian) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Life Writing) (Maritime) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (South Asian) (Transnationalism)

Email:kdobson@mtroyal.ca

Phone:403 440 6468

Fax:403 440 6526

Address:Department of English Mount Royal University 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW Calgary, AB T3E 6K6

Institution:Mount Royal University

Bio:Kit Dobson is an Assistant Professor of Canadian Literature at Calgary's Mount Royal University. His first book, Transnational Canadas: Globalization and Anglo-Canadian Literature was published by Wilfrid Laurier UP in 2009, and recent articles appear or are forthcoming in Studies in Canadian Literature, Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Open Letter, and elsewhere.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Fiction) (Films) (First Nations) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Politics) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Quebec) (Transnationalism)

Email:mducharm@interchange.ubc.ca

Phone:604-822-5642

Address:University of British Columbia, 1297-1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Michel Ducharme is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the intellectual, cultural and political debates between 1760 and 1867 and examines the discursive foundations on which the development of the Canadian state rests.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Francophone) (History) (Multicultural) (Myth) (Politics) (Quebec)

Email:clairemduncan@hotmail.com

Institution:University of British Columbia

Fields of Interest:

Email:stephendunning@telus.net

Phone:(604) 888-7511 (3316)

Institution:Trinity Western University

Bio:Stephen Dunning received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Ottawa and his PhD from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is the author of The Crisis and the Quest: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Charles Williams (Paternoster Press, 2000) and of a number of articles on modern British and Canadian literature. His current research interests include contemporary conceptions of 19th-century intellectual culture in "dual setting" Canadian and British fiction, and more generally the emergence of secular society. He taught English at Douglas College in Vancouver from 1989 to 2007, and is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at Trinity Western University.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Colonial) (Diaspora Studies) (Mennonite Writers/Writing) (Modern) (North, The) (Postcolonial) (Science Fiction) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:justin.edwards@bangor.ac.uk

Website:http://www.bangor.ac.uk/english/staff/edwards.php

Institution:English Department, University of Wales, Bangor

Bio:Professor and Head of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. I am the author of several books, including Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave 2008), Understanding Jamaica Kincaid (South Carolina 2007), Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (Iowa U P 2003), Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (U of Alberta P 2005), Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature (UP of New England 2001). I am also the coeditor of Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (with Douglas Ivison, UTP 2005) and Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (Signal Books 2006).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Diaspora Studies) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism) (Travel)

Email:margery.fee@ubc.ca

Phone:(604)822-4085

Fax:(604)822-6906

Website:http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/mfee/

Address:Department of English 397-1873 East Mall Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Margery Fee is the Editor of Canadian Literature. She is Associate Editor of the second edition the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles,with Editor in Chief Stefan Dollinger and Associate Editor Laurel Brinton. She is working on a project on Aboriginal health, narrative and genetics at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (2008).

Fields of Interest:(Contemporary) (First Nations) (Food Studies) (Language) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial)

Email:ferguson.jesse(at)unb.ca

Website:http://www.unbf.ca/arts/english

Address:Department of English Carleton Hall University of New Brunswick P.O. Box 4400 Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 5A3

Institution:University of New Brunswick

Bio:Jesse Patrick Ferguson is a PhD candidate in English literature at The University of New Brunswick. His article on Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss appears in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and his article on Don McKay's poetry is forthcoming in English Studies in Canada. He has also published several reviews in Canadian journals like: Matrix, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, Vallum, CV2 and The Fiddlehead, the journal for which he serves as a poetry editor. He is interested in creative writing and has published poetry in prominent Canadian and international journals such as: Prairie Fire, Grain, The New Quarterly, Harper's and Poetry. His first full-length book of poems, Harmonics, was published in fall 2009 by Freehand Books. His teaching interests include Canadian poetry and creative writing.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Modern) (Poetry) (Transnationalism)

Email:janice.fiamengo@uottawa.ca

Phone:(613)562-5800 ext.1139

Fax:(613)562-5990

Address:University of Ottawa, Room 319, 70 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada

Institution:University of Ottawa

Bio:Janice Fiamengo is an associate professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of _The Woman's Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada_ (2008) and is currently writing a monograph tentatively titled "'Across a narrow abyss': Looking at Animals, Searching for God in Canadian Literature."    

Fields of Interest:(Women's Writing)

Email:afilewod@uoguelph.ca

Address:School of English and Theatre Stsudies University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada

Institution:University of Guelph

Bio:Alan Filewod is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. His books include Collective Encounters: Documentary Theatre in English Canada (1987), Performing “Canada”: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre (2002), and, with David Watt, Workers’ Playtime: Theatre and the Labour Movement since 1970 (2001), and editor of several anthologies of plays. His current research centres on the history of radical political theatre in Canada He is a past president of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research and of the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ Association des littératures canadienne et québécoise, and is a former editor of Canadian Theatre Review.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (War)

Email:susan.fisher@ufv.ca

Website:http://www.ucfv.ca/english/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty__Members/Susan_Fisher.htm

Address:University of the Fraser Valley, 33844 King Road, Abbotsford, British Columbia, V2S 7M8, Canada

Institution:University of the Fraser Valley

Bio:Susan Fisher, a former associate and acting editor of Canadian Literature, edited CL#179, a special issue on literature and war. She teaches Canadian at the University of the Fraser Valley.

Fields of Interest:(Asian) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (War)

Email:louise.forsyth@shaw.ca

Phone:(403)242-3040

Fax:(403)242-5006

Address:2034 36 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2T 2G7, Canada

Bio:Louise H. Forsyth taught for many years and was head of the Department of French at the University of Western Ontario. She then moved to the University of Saskatchewan, where she was Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. She is currently Professor emerita and Adjunct Professor in Languages & Linguistics and Women's & Gender Studies. She has published extensively on Québec writer Nicole Brossard, Québec women playwrights, Writing in the Feminine in Québec, Translation, and francophone theatre in Saskatchewan.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Drama & Theatre) (Feminism) (Gay & Lesbian) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Quebec)

Email:lfrappie@sfu.ca

Phone:(778)782-7221

Institution:Simon Fraser University

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (France) (History) (Politics) (Quebec)

Email:D.Fuller@bham.ac.uk

Website:http://www.beyondthebookproject.org

Address:University of Birmingham, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

Institution:University of Birmingham

Bio:Danielle Fuller is Director, Regional Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. Her publications include articles on Canadian literary cultural production, Atlantic Canadian Literature and the CBC’s “Canada Reads.” Her book, Writing the Everyday: Women’s Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada (McGill-Queen’s U P, 2004) won the 2004 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English-language).  She is currently collaborating with DeNel Rehberg Sedo on an interdisciplinary project, “Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, USA and Canada,” (www.beyondthebookproject.org) funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Culture) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Maritime) (Media Studies) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism)

Email:elizabeth.galway@uleth.ca

Phone:(403)329-2374

Fax:(403)382-7191

Address:University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, Canada

Institution:University of Lethbridge

Bio:Elizabeth Galway is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, where she specialises in children’s literature, Canadian writing, and nineteenth-century fiction.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Colonial) (War) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:pmgen@shaw.ca

Phone:250 477 4923

Address:4300 Houlihan Place, Victoria, British Columbia, V8N 3T1, Canada

Institution:Professor emeritus, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

Bio:I am the author of several books including: "Alain-Fournier face à l'angoisse" Éditions Minard, Paris, 1965, "La faillite du Canada anglais" Éditions Quinze, Montréal, 1980, "Marie-Anna Roy, une voix solitaire" Éditions des plaines, 1992, and "Avec le temps" (a novel) Éditions du Vermillon, Ottawa, 2006.

Fields of Interest:(Francophone)

Email:helen.gilbert@rhul.ac.uk

Phone:+44 (0)178 444 3922

Fax:+44 (0)178 443 1018

Website:http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Drama/staff/gilbert_helen/index.htm

Address:Drama Department Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX United Kingdom

Institution:Royal Holloway, University of London

Fields of Interest:(Drama & Theatre) (First Nations) (Postcolonial)

Email:margogy@yorku.ca

Phone:416-736-2100 ext. 40295

Address:Department of English 208 Stong College York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto ON M3J1P3

Institution:York University

Bio:Margo Gouley is a third year PhD candidate in English at York University. She specializes in 19th century Canadian literature, and is particularly interested in transatlantic and transnational approaches. She is currently writing a dissertation on organic metaphors of nation in 19th century Canadian literary criticism published between 1850-1875.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Criticism) (Ecocriticism) (Nature Writing) (Postcolonial) (Quebec) (Short Stories) (Transnationalism)

Email:Sherrill.Grace@ubc.ca

Phone:(604)266-2450

Address:

2018 Quilchena Crescent, Vancouver B.C. V6M 1E3 

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Sherrill Grace is a professor of English at The University of British Columbia, where she specializes in Canadian literature, arts, and culture.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (American) (Art) (Canadian Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction)

Email:lisa.grekul@ubc.ca

Phone:250-807-9347

Address:University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus 3333 University Way Kelowna, British Columbia V1V 1V7 Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Originally from St. Paul, Alberta, Lisa Grekul has lived in Mbabane (Swaziland), Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver. She completed her B.A. (Hons) and M.A. degrees at the University of Alberta, and she holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Lisa is a creative writer and a literary scholar whose research focuses on Canadian literature (minority/diasporic writers, in particular), other postcolonial literatures, and postcolonial theory. Her first novel, Kalyna’s Song, published by Coteau in 2003, is the coming-of-age story of a third-generation Ukrainian Canadian girl who grows up in northeastern Alberta and southern Africa. Her second book, Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada’s Ukrainians (University of Alberta, 2005), is a critical study of English-language Ukrainian Canadian poetry, drama, fiction, and creative non-fiction. She is currently at work on a SSHRC-funded book and film project, (Con)temporary Nomads: Canadian Autobiography and the Search for Home, which examines "homecoming" narratives by Canadians of Eastern European descent.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Contemporary) (Diaspora Studies) (Fiction) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:NA

Bio:Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor and translator whose work has appeared in various Canadian and international publications. Her first collection of poetry, What if red ran out, was published in 2008.

Fields of Interest:(Criticism) (Fiction) (Francophone) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Quebec)

Email:kguest@unbc.ca

Phone:(250)960-6642

Address:University of Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, British Columbia, V2N 4Z9, Canada

Institution:University of Northern British Columbia

Bio:Kristen Guest is an Associate Professor in the English Program at UNBC. Her research focuses on Victorian literature with an emphasis on popular culture (melodrama, detective fiction).

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (British) (Children's) (Culture) (Drama & Theatre) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:faye.hammill@strath.ac.uk

Website:http://www.strath.ac.uk/english/membersofthedepartment/hammillfayedr/

Address:Dept of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK

Institution:University of Strathclyde

Bio:Faye Hammill is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Strathclyde. She was editor of the British Journal of Canadian Studies (2005-9) and is currently leading the AHRC-funded Middlebrow Network, a transatlantic interdisciplinary project focusing on cultural hierarchy. She is author of 'Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada' (2003), 'Women, Celebrity and Literary Culture Between the Wars' (2007) and 'Canadian Literature' (2007). Current research focusses on early 20thC fiction and magazines.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (American) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Fiction) (Journalism) (Modern) (Women's Writing)

Email:markeryca@yahoo.ca

Phone:(604)688-4051

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Mark Harris teaches Film Studies at the University of British Columbia. A prize-winning playwright, he writes regularly on the seventh art for The Georgia Straight and other periodicals.

Fields of Interest:(Films) (Poetry)

Email:hart_ben@hotmail.com

Bio:Ben Hart's fiction and his poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in: Grain, The Malahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, filling Station, The Nashwaak Review, Kiss Machine, Event, Front&Centre, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly and Canadian Literature. His chapbook, Dough Rolled Perfect, will be published by Frog Hollow Press in December 2008.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (Fiction) (Poetry) (Short Stories)

Email:stonewyd@cogeco.ca

Phone:(705)743-1651

Fax:(705)743-1651

Address:1290 Hilliard Street, Peterborough, Ontario, K9H 5S4, Canada

Institution:Trent University

Bio:I received my PhD from the University of Toronto/OISE (2005). My research interests broadly concern the representation of Indigenous Peoples within Euro-American narratives and images, and the consequences of such depictions for public education and national understanding. I am an assistant professor in the Queen’s-Trent Concurrent Education Program and serve on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Canoe Museum. My most recent publication is, Inventing 'Easter Island,' UTP, 2008.

Fields of Interest:(Culture) (Education) (Postcolonial) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:shengen@laurentian.ca

Phone:(705)675-1151 ext.4340

Fax:(705)675-4870

Address:Laurentian University, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada

Institution:Laurentian University

Bio:Shannon Hengen teaches English at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Postcolonial)

Email:afjhill@hotmail.com

Bio:Alan Hill is a Burnaby based poet who has had work published in a number of small UK publications and by Poetry Scotland. In Canada he has been published in CV2, Canadian Literature and in 'Rocksalt' , the first BC wide anthology of poetry for thirty years. He emigrated to Canada from the UK in 2005 after having worked for some years in Botswana in the field of Community Development. He now works in local government.

Fields of Interest:(Anglo-Saxon) (British) (Cultural Geography) (History) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Transnationalism)

Email:colin.hill@utoronto.ca

Phone:(905)569-4894

Fax:(905)828-5202

Address:University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario, L5L 1C6, Canada

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:Colin Hill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and director of the Canadian Studies program at U of T’s Mississauga campus.  He is editor of a critical edition of Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage (U of Ottawa Press, 2007) and author of several articles on Canadian literature.  He is working on a book about modernism and realism in early twentieth-century Canadian fiction and editing scholarly editions of previously unpublished novels by Hugh MacLennan and Raymond Knister. 

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (Life Writing) (Modern) (Regionalism)

Email:sandra.hobbs@wayne.edu

Address:Wayne State University, 4743 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 48201-1201, USA

Institution:Wayne State University

Bio:Sandra Hobbs teaches French and Québécois literature at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Her main areas of expertise are the Quebec novel since 1960, resistance writing in Quebec during the Quiet Revolution, and the representation of First Nations peoples in Quebec literature.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Criticism) (First Nations) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Quebec)

Email:dee@unbc.ca

Phone:250-960-6641

Fax:250-960-5545

Website:http://scrollpress.com; http//www.unbc.ca/english

Address:University of Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, British Columbia, V2N 4Z9, Canada

Institution:University of Northern British Columbia

Bio:Dr. Horne teaches creative writing and American Literature at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is the editor of Scroll in Space, an online literary journal dedicated to literary fiction and creative non-fiction (http://scrollinspace.com). She is also the publisher of Scroll Press (http://scrollpress.com) She welcomes submissions to Scroll Press and to Scroll in Space. Please read the guidelines before submitting work.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (Films) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (Long Poem) (Modern) (Myth) (Parody) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Women's Writing)

Email:huebenph [at sign goes here] mcmaster [dot goes here] ca

Institution:McMaster University

Bio:Paul Huebener is a PhD student in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His criticism, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Watershed, Terrain.org, Incite, Canadian Literature, and ISLE. He is a co-editor of The Goose, the publication of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Ecocriticism) (Fiction) (Nature Writing) (Poetry)

Email:churdle@capcollege.bc.ca

Address:1281 West 22nd Street, North Vancouver, British Columbia, V7P 2G2, Canada

Institution:Capilano College

Bio:Crystal Hurdle teaches Creative Writing and English at Capilano College in North Vancouver. After Ted & Sylvia: Poems, about, to, and for poets Plath and Hughes, was published by Ronsdale Press in 2003. Her poetry has been published widely in Canadian journals, including Canadian Literature, Fireweed, The Dalhousie Review, and The Capilano Review, of which she was Fiction editor in the late eighties. 

Fields of Interest:(Poetry)

Email:k.ikas@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Website:http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb3/wagner/ikas.htm

Address:Fb. III, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer-Str. 5, 60054 Frankfurt a. M. / Germany

Institution:Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Bio:Dr. Karin Ikas, M.A., has studied at the University of Texas at Austin and at Würzburg University, where she received her Ph.D. in English and American Studies, Cultural Studies & Didactics. Her dissertation on “Modern Chicana Literature: An Intercultural Analysis” won the prestigious Daimler Chrysler Foundation’s “Academy Award for Intercultural Studies”. She has conducted postdoctoral work at universities in Australia, South African, the USA and Canada, and is presently research lecturer at the Department for Social Sciences at Frankfurt (M) University where she also holds a teaching position in the Department of English and American Studies. She has published widely on English, Canadian, American, Australian, (Post-)Colonial, Gender and Jewish Studies. Her latest book, prefaced by Homi K. Bhabha and published with Routledge in September 2008, is entitled 'Communicating in the Third Space' (co-edited with Gerhard Wagner). Her other books include 'The Canadian Nation in the Third Millennium' (2009), 'Gender Debat/tl/ed: Gender and War' (2003), 'Chicana Ways' (2002), 'Die zeitgenössische Chicana-Literatur: Eine interkulturelle Untersuchung' (2000), 'U.S Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives', co-edited with Francisco Lomelí, 'Stories from Down Under', co-edited with David Carter (2004), and 'Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures', co-edited with Rüdiger Ahrens, María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco Lomelí (2005). Forthcoming is '"A Nation Forged in Fire": Canadian Literature and the Construction of National Identity'.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Anglo-Saxon) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Food Studies) (Historical Fiction) (Latin America) (Multicultural) (North, The) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing) (Short Stories) (Transnationalism) (Travel) (War)

Email:dean.irvine@dal.ca

Website:http://editingmodernism.ca

Bio:Dean Irvine is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. He is the editor of Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay (1998), Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, 1924-1961 (2003), and The Canadian Modernists Meet (2005). His edition of F.R. Scott’s complete poems and translations is forthcoming in the Canadian Modern Poets: Texts and Contexts series (Canadian Poetry Press). He is the author of Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada (2008), and is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Variant Readings: Editing Canadian Literature. As general editor of the Canadian Literature Collection/Collection de littérature canadienne (University of Ottawa Press), a new series of critical editions with online apparatus, and director of the Editing Modernism in Canada project, he is engaged in a wide range of collaborative editorial projects in print and digital media.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (Culture) (History) (Modern) (Poetry) (Publishing)

Email:douglas.ivison@lakeheadu.ca

Phone:(807)346-7825

Fax:(807)343-8023

Address:Lakehead University, Department of English, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 5E1, Canada

Institution:Lakehead University

Bio:Douglas Ivison is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lakehead University, and a Research Fellow of Lakehead's Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture (AIG+C). He is the editor of Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography 251) (Gale 2002) and co-editor, with Justin D. Edwards, of Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (UTP 2005), and is on the Advisory Board of Studies in Canadian Literature. His current research interests include the city and urbanism in Canadian and Australian literature and film; contemporary Newfoundland writing; Canadian speculative fiction; and Canadian popular culture.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Ecocriticism) (Exploration) (Fiction) (Films) (Historical Fiction) (Maritime) (Modern) (Music) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Science Fiction) (Settler Writing) (Speculative Fiction) (Transnationalism) (Travel) (War)

Email:8mj2@queensu.ca

Address:Queen's University, Office D324 Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada

Institution:Queen's University

Bio:Madelaine Jacobs is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Cultural Geography) (First Nations) (History) (Postcolonial)

Email:sujames@interchange.ubc.ca

Address:University of British Columbia, Department of English, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Suzanne James teaches at UBC and lives in Vancouver.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (Asian-Canadian) (Children's) (Colonial) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (South Asian) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:cpsj2000@gmail.com

Institution:University of Ottawa

Bio:Chris Jennings has taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa. He lives in Ottawa and serves on the ARC board of directors.

Fields of Interest:(Art) (Criticism) (History) (Language) (Long Poem) (Poetry)

Email:jirgens@uwindsor.ca

Phone:(519) 253-3000 ext. 2289

Fax:(519) 971-3676

Address:University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada

Institution:University of Windsor

Bio:Karl Jirgens is a writer, editor, and researcher who teaches contemporary literature and literary theory. He publishes Rampike magazine and serves as Head of the English Department at the University of Windsor, Canada.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Publishing) (Transnationalism)

Email:jim.johnstone@utoronto.ca

Phone:(416)-802-9324

Website:http://www.misunderstandingsmagazine.com

Address:828 Dovercourt Rd. Apt 1, Toronto, Ontario, M6H 2X3

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:Jim Johnstone is the author of The Velocity of Escape (Guernica Editions, 2008) and the editor of Misunderstandings Magazine. He is a two time winner of the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry and was shortlisted for the 2007 CBC Poetry Award. Recently, his work has appeared in periodicals such as The Antigonish Review, Descant, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire and Prism International.

Fields of Interest:(Long Poem) (Poetry) (Publishing)

Email:mjones@uwo.ca

Phone:(519)661-2111 ext. 85783

Fax:(519)661-3776

Address:University of Western Ontario, Department of English, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Bio:Manina Jones is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is co-editor with Marta Dvorak of Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary, co-author with Priscilla L. Walton of Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition, and author of That Art of Difference: Documentary-Collage and English Canadian Writing as well as articles on Canadian literature.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (Life Writing) (Long Poem) (Postcolonial)

Email:maia@interchange.ubc.ca

Address:Department of English, University of British Columbia, #397 - 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Maia Joseph is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on Canadian urban literature, urbanism and regionalism, the ethics and politics of artistic practice, and the interdisciplinary theorization of space and community. Her dissertation examines literary responses to the recent (and ongoing) redevelopment of Vancouver's downtown core.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Asian-Canadian) (Canadian Studies) (Cultural Geography) (Diaspora Studies) (Ecocriticism) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Modern) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism)

Email:anne.l.kaufman@gmail.com

Phone:857-928-3638

Address:Milton Academy, 170 Centre Street, Milton, Massachusetts, 02186, USA

Bio:Anne Kaufman teaches at Bridgewater State College and Milton Academy, both of which are in Massachusetts.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (North, The) (Sports Writing)

Email:ekelly28@uwo.ca

Website:http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Bio:Erica is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Poetry) (Postcolonial)

Email:akertzer@ucalgary.ca

Phone:(403)220-4661

Fax:(403)289-1123

Address:University of Calgary, Social Sciences Building 1152, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada

Institution:University of Calgary

Bio:Adrienne Kertzer teaches at the University of Calgary

Fields of Interest:(Children's) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (Trauma Studies) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:catherine_khordoc@carleton.ca

Address:Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada

Institution:Carleton University

Bio:Catherine Khordoc is associate professor of French at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Fiction) (France) (Historical Fiction) (Language) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Quebec) (Transnationalism)

Email:alexiskienlen@hotmail.com

Phone:780-988-7292

Website:http://www.alexiskienlen.com

Address:Edmonton, Alberta

Bio:Alexis Kienlen is a writer who currently lives in Edmonton. She released her first book "She dreams in Red" in 2007. Her poetry, fiction, and journalism pieces have appeared in numerous publications across Canada. From 2001-2006, Alexis served as the Literary Editor of Ricepaper Magazine. She has a background in ethnic relations, journalism, rural issues and food secur

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Asian) (Asian-American) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Films) (First Nations) (Food Studies) (Journalism) (Life Writing) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Nature Writing) (North, The) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Satire) (Science Fiction) (Short Stories) (South Asian) (Speculative Fiction) (Travel) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:lokuby@sympatico.ca

Phone:905-886-8281

Fax:905-886-8281

Address:9 Cricklewood Crescent, Thornhill, Ontario, L3T 3T8, Canada

Institution:Cleveland State University

Bio:Lolette Kuby is an Amrican Expat, living in Toronto since 1999. Her seven books include literary criticism, non-fiction, poetry, and short stories. Shorter pieces have appeared in upwards of fifty periodicals and magazines. Her first novel is forthcoming.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (American) (British) (Criticism) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Life Writing) (Modern) (Poetry) (Short Stories) (Women's Writing)

Email:kuesterm@staff.uni-marburg.de

Address:Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany

Institution:Philipps-Universität Marburg

Bio:Martin Kuester teaches at the University of Marburg and is Director of its Centre for Canadian Studies. He has written monographs on the Canadian historical novel and on John Milton.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction) (History) (Mennonite Writers/Writing) (Parody) (Postcolonial)

Email:louise.ladouceur@ualberta.ca

Phone:(780)465-8751

Fax:(780)465-8760

Address:University of Alberta, 8406 - 91 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T6C 4G9, Canada.

Institution:University of Alberta

Bio:Louise Ladouceur teaches at the University of Alberta’s Campus Saint-Jean and is the French Associate Editor of the journal "Recherches Théâtrales au Canada/Theatre Research in Canada". Her research is primarily concerned with Canadian theatre, theatre translation, and French theatre in Western Canada. Her monograph "Making the Scene : la traduction du théâtre d’une langue officielle à l’autre au Canada", published in 2005 by Éditions Nota bene, was awarded the Gabrielle Roy Prize and the Anne Saddlemeyer Book Award. She has also translated seven plays and was previously a professional artist interested mainly in experimental and feminist theatre.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Drama & Theatre)

Email:Maurice.Lamothe@usainteanne.ca

Phone:902 769-2114

Fax:902 769-2930

Address:1695, Route 1, Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia, B0W 1M0, Canada

Institution:Université Sainte-Anne

Bio:Maurice Lamothe est spécialiste de la chanson populaire contemporaine franco-canadienne. Il a dirigé des travaux subventionnés par le CRSH portant sur la modernité et l'ethnicité la chanson populaire contemporaine. Ses recherches actuelles touchent la chanson franco-canadienne de l'Ouest, son produit et sa pratique. Maurice Lamothe a été directeur du département d'études françaises de l'Université Sainte-Anne pendant plus de dix ans. Il est actuellement doyen des arts et des sciences et directeur de la revue Port Acadie

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Culture) (Francophone) (Maritime) (Quebec)

Email:je_lamy@yahoo.ca

Institution:UQAM

Bio:Jonathan Lamy est poète, performeur, chargé de cours et étudiant au doctorat interdisciplinaire en sémiologie à l'Université du Québec à Montréal.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Culture) (First Nations) (Poetry) (Quebec)

Email:Dorothy.Lane@uregina.ca

Phone:(306)585-4465

Fax:(306)585-5267

Address:University of Regina, Luther College, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, Canada

Institution:Luther College, University of Regina

Bio:Dorothy Lane is Professor of English (Luther College) and Head of the English department at the University of Regina. She completed her BA and MA at Carleton University, and her PhD at Queen's University. Her specializations are postcolonial literatures [especially settler writing], Canadian literature, and children's literature. Her most recent scholarship focuses on the pilgrimage paradigm in contemporary travel narratives.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Colonial) (Cultural Geography) (Diaspora Studies) (Exploration) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing) (South Asian) (Travel)

Email:Richard.Lane@viu.ca

Phone:250 753 3245

Fax:250 740 6459

Website:http://web.viu.ca/richardlane/index.htm

Address:Dept. of English 900 Fifth Street Nanaimo, BC, Canada, V9R 5S5

Institution:Vancouver Island University

Bio:Dr. Richard J. Lane teaches in the English Department at Vancouver Island University, Canada. He is the author or editor of nine academic books, his most recent publication being a co-edited collection of essays called Image Technologies in Canadian Literature: Narrative, Film, and Photography (co-edited with Carmen Concilio, Lang, 2009). Lane has published widely on contemporary theory, continental philosophy and Canadian literature, including the books The Postcolonial Novel (Polity, 2006), Fifty Key Literary Theorists (Routledge, 2006), Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing Through The Catastrophe (MUP, 2005), Functions of the Derrida Archive: Philosophical Receptions (Akademiai Kiado, 2003), Contemporary British Fiction (Polity, 2003), Beckett and Philosophy (Palgrave, 2002), Mrs Dalloway: Literary Masterpieces (Gale, 2001), and Jean Baudrillard (Routledge 2000; second edition 2009; Japanese and Korean translations available). Lane's forthcoming book is A History of Canadian Literature, with Routledge; he also currently writes the 'Canada' section for The Year's Work in English Studies (OUP & The English Association). Lane is director of The Literary Theory Research Group which runs the Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Vancouver Island University.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Auto/biography) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction) (First Nations) (History) (Modern) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing) (Trauma Studies)

Email:maryanne.p.r.h.laurico@queensu.ca

Institution:Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Culture) (Ecocriticism) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Poetry) (Politics) (Postcolonial)

Email:leckerlink@aol.com

Phone:514-830-4818

Fax:514-483-1644

Address:Department of English McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada

Institution:McGill University

Bio:Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University, where he specializes in Canadian literature. Lecker was the co-editor of the critical journal Essays on Canadian Writing from 1975-2004, and the copublisher at ECW Press from 1977-2003. In his work at ECW Lecker was responsible for acquiring and producing hundreds of works of criticism devoted to Canadian literature, and, with his partner, Jack David, he conceived of the multi-volume reference series entitle The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors (8 vols.) and, with Ellen Quigley, Canadian Writers and Their Works: Essays on Form, Context, and Development (24 vols.) Lecker extended his editorial work through the creation of several anthologies, most recently Open Country: Canadian Literature in English (2007). He also acted as the general editor for Twayne’s Masterworks Series and Twayne’s World Authors series (Canada) and was also the general editor of G.K. Hall’s Critical Essays on World Literature series. In 2004 he established the Robert Lecker Agencyin Montreal. Lecker is the author of numerous books and articles, including On the Line (1982), Robert Kroetsch (1986), Another I (1988), Making It Real (1995), Dr. Delicious (2006) and The Cadence of Civil Elegies (2006). In 1985 Lecker received the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching at McGill University.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Poetry) (Politics) (Publishing) (Short Stories)

Email:lindy.ledohowski@gmail.com

Website:http://english.uwaterloo.ca/Ledohowski.html

Address:St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo 290 Westmount Road North Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G3

Institution:St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo

Bio:Lindy is an assistant professor, teaching Canadian literature at St. Jerome's in the University of Waterloo.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Education) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism) (Trauma Studies)

Email:ben@roomofbensown.net

Website:http://roomofbensown.net/

Address:Graduate Research School, Woodbury, University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR2 6AJ, UK

Institution:University of Worcester

Bio:Benjamin Lefebvre is a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of Worcester (UK), the Visiting Scholar at the L.M. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island, and Director of the L.M. Montgomery Research Group. He is currently working on a monograph on cultural citizenship and child protagonists in Canadian fiction from 1947 to 2007. He recently edited L.M. Montgomery's rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted (Viking Canada, 2009), and co-edited Anne's World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables (University of Toronto Press, 2010).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Criticism) (Culture) (Fiction) (Films) (Historical Fiction) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Quebec) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:lucie.lequin@concordia.ca

Phone:(514)848-2424 ext.7505

Fax:514 848-4542

Address:Université Concordia, 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada

Institution:Concordia University

Bio:Lucie Lequin is a Professor of Québec Literature in Études françaises at Concordia University in Montreal.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Feminism) (Multicultural) (Quebec)

Email:mariaj.hernaez@unirioja.es

Phone:011 34 941 20 61 12

Fax:+34 941 299 419

Website:http://www.unirioja.es

Address:Edificio de Filologías, Universidad de La Rioja, C/ San José de Calasanz, s/n, 26004 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain.

Institution:English Department, University of La Rioja, Spain

Bio:María Jesús Hernáez Lerena teaches American and Canadian literatures at the University of La Rioja (Spain). Her main field of research was short story theory for a number of years and she has written three books on the short story: Exploración de un género literario: los relatos breves de Alice Munro (1998), Story Time: Exercises in the Study of American Literature for Advanced Students of English (1999), and Short Story World: The Nineteenth-Century American Masters (2003). She has published articles on Sara Orne Jewett, Wyndham Lewis, Carol Shields, Alice Munro, Barbara Gowdy, Katherine Govier, Douglas Glover, etc., in Spanish, English, and Canadian journals. She has been editor of Journal of English Studies (University of La Rioja). Her most recent publication is the co-edition of the book Canon Disorders: Gendered perspectives on Literature and Film in Canada and the United States  (University of La Rioja/La Laguna, 2007). María Jesús Hernáez introduced the Canadian Studies in her university and teaches Canadian literature within a doctoral program awarded the Quality Distinction for Doctoral Programs by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. She is in charge of the mobility program for Canadian visiting scholars within that program. She is now doing research on the literature and culture of Newfoundland.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (Exploration) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (Maritime) (Nature Writing) (Parody) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Short Stories) (Trauma Studies)

Email:mmlo@pdx.edu

Phone:(503)725-9411

Address:724 SW Harrison, NH 405, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA

Institution:Portland State University

Bio:Marie Lo is an associate professor of English at Portland State University. She is completing her manuscript, "Recognition's Field of Vision: The Visible Subject of Asian North America," which traces the cross-fertilization of US and Canadian racial discourses in Asian North American cultural production.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Asian-American) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (Media Studies) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:clousley@wlu.ca

Phone:(519)884-0710 ext.2197

Address:Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada

Institution:Wilfrid Laurier University

Bio:Cheryl Lousley is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds (UK) and a lecturer in English at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:mluger@interchange.ubc.ca

Address:University of British Columbia, English Department, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Culture) (Poetry) (Trauma Studies) (War)

Email:jlundgren@tru.ca

Address:Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning P.O. Box 3010 900 McGill Road Kamloops, BC V2C

Institution:Thompson Rivers University

Fields of Interest:(Contemporary) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Women's Writing) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:mac.john@sympatico.ca

Address:99 Wheeler Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4L 3V3, Canada

Bio:Moira MacDougall's artistic life began as a serious student of classical ballet and modern dance. Her poetry weds her love of movement and rhythm with voice and linguistic performance.  She has had her work published in Canada and the US including the Dalhousie Review, Grain Magazine, Room, Wind Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Canadian Literature, CV2, Tickle Ace and Kalliope. Her studies include undergraduate degrees in English, Humanities and Psychology; and an M.A. in Adult Education/Counselling.  Her first book of poetry, “Concavity and Curves” will be published in the fall of 2009 by Tightrope Press. She is currently the Associate Poetry Editor of the Literary Review of Canada and makes her home in “the Beach” in Toronto, Ontario.

Fields of Interest:(Criticism) (Culture) (Education) (Nature Writing) (Poetry)

Email:martens@mx.uni-saarland.de

Phone:+49-681-894407

Fax:+49-681-302-2710

Website:http://klausmartens.com

Address:Prof. Dr. Klaus Martens FR 4.3 PF 150151 Universitaet des Saarlandes Im Stadtwald D-66041 Saarbruecken Germany D-66041

Institution:Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany

Bio:Prof. of English & American Studies, Chair, Centre for Canadian and Anglo American Studies (CCAC), author of many scholarly books and articles, F.P. Grove specialist (five monographs), a published poet and noted literary translator.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Art) (Auto/biography) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Europe) (First Nations) (Folklore) (German) (Historical Fiction) (Language) (Long Poem) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Music) (Nature Writing) (North, The) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Science Fiction)

Email:tvmason@dal.ca

Address:Department of English, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Avenue, Room 1186, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9

Institution:Dalhousie University

Bio:As a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University, Travis V. Mason is studying literary responses (and resistance) to science in Canada from the early 19th to mid-20th century. Articles on Canadian, postcolonial, and ecological literature have appeared in ISLE (with Michael Healey and Laurie Ricou), Mosaic, Canadian Literature, Kunapippi, Studies in Canadian Literature, and the collection Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Ecocriticism) (Historical Fiction) (Long Poem) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Short Stories) (War)

Email:jody_mason@carleton.ca

Website:http://www.carleton.ca/english/faculty/mason.html

Institution:Carleton University

Bio:Jody Mason is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. Mason has published articles on diverse topics in the field of Canadian Literatures, most of which investigate the politics of mobility in the modern and contemporary periods. She is currently working on a book-length project that examines the relations among transience, unemployment, citizenship, and the cultural left from 1925-1975.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Fiction) (Modern) (Poetry) (Politics) (Postcolonial) (Publishing)

Email:sam.mckegney@queensu.ca

Phone:613-533-6000 ext. 74388

Fax:613-533-6872

Website:http://www.queensu.ca/english/mckegney.html

Address:Department of English Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6

Institution:Queen's University

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (First Nations) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial)

Email:katherine.mcleod@utoronto.ca

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:Katherine McLeod is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto where she studies issues of performance and Canadian poetry.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Films) (Long Poem) (Media Studies) (Multicultural) (Music) (North, The) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:amohan21@rediffmail.com

Address:Department of English University of Toronto 170 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5R 2M8

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:Anupama Mohan is a Doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. She is also a poet who has published in different magazines and newspapers. Her debut volume of poetry, Twenty Odd Love Poems, was published by The Writer's Workshop, Calcutta, in 2008.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (British) (Colonial) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Films) (Folklore) (Historical Fiction) (Long Poem) (Modern) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Short Stories) (South Asian)

Email:albert.moritz@utoronto.ca

Address:14 Alpha Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1J3, Canada

Fields of Interest:

Email:lmorra@ubishops.ca

Phone:(819)822-9600 ext. 2872

Address:Bishop's University, 2600 College Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1M 0C8, Canada

Institution:Bishop's University

Bio:Linda Morra is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Bishop's University. She completed her book, Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth (2006), while holding a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at UBC (2002-2004). With Professor Deanna Reder, she is currently co-editing an anthology titled, Troubling Tricksters, forthcoming with WLUP (2010).

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Art) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (History) (Life Writing) (Myth) (Nature Writing) (North, The) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Quebec) (Regionalism) (Satire) (Short Stories) (Transnationalism) (Trauma Studies) (Women's Writing)

Email:forgotten.english@gmail.com

Institution:University of Oxford

Bio:Kate Morris is currently reading for the D.Phil in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. She holds an M.Litt degree in Modernities from the University of Glasgow and an undergraduate honours degree in English and Art History from McGill University. She has published in Octopus, Invisible Cultures, Canadian Literature and a number of online magazines.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Architecture) (Art) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Films) (France) (Francophone) (Modern) (North, The) (Quebec) (Short Stories) (Speculative Fiction)

Email:mossl@interchange.ubc.ca

Phone:(604)822-4226

Address:University of British Columbia, Rm. 397, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Satire)

Email:munoz_theresa@hotmail.com

Phone:+44 (0)1387 702001

Address:Rutherford/McCowan Building, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries, DG1 4ZL

Institution:University of Glasgow

Bio:Theresa Muñoz was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1983. She has published poetry in various magazines in the United Kingdom and Canada. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, Dumfries. She is a regular contributor to Scotland's Sunday Herald‘s book pages and the Scottish Review of Books.

Fields of Interest:(21st Century) (American) (Auto/biography) (British) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Language) (Life Writing) (Long Poem) (Poetry) (Politics)

Email:roger_nash@hotmail.com

Phone:(705)523-4681

Fax:(705)671-9330

Address:Laurentian University, Department of Philosophy, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada

Institution:Laurentian University

Bio:Roger Nash is a past-President of the Canadian League of Poets. As President, he helped create the position of Canadian Poet Laureate, arguing for it before the Senate. His seventh and latest book of poems is Something Blue And Flying Upwards (Your Scrivener Press, 2006.) His most recent scholarly book-publication is The Poetry of Prayer (Edgeways Books, U.K., 2004). He has won a number of literary awards, including the Canadian Jewish Book Award, the Confederation Poets Award (twice) and the PEN/O.Henry Short Story Award for 2009. He is Director of the Humanities MA in Interpretation and Values at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

Fields of Interest:(Art) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Ecocriticism) (Education) (Fiction) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Short Stories)

Email:saleema.nawaz@gmail.com

Address:4-64 Fairmount Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, H2T 2M2, Canada

Bio:Saleema Nawaz is a writer based in Montreal. Her debut short-story collection was published by Freehand Books in Fall 2008.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Multicultural) (Quebec) (Short Stories) (Women's Writing)

Email:maria.ng@uleth.ca

Phone:(403)329-2243

Fax:(403)382-7191

Address:University of Lethbridge, Department of English, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, Canada

Institution:University of Lethbridge

Bio:Maria N. Ng is associate professor in English Literature at the University of Lethbridge and the author of Three Exotic Views of Southeast Asia: The Travel Narratives of Isabella Bird, Max Dauthendey, and Ai Wu 1850-1930 (2002) as well as the co-editor of Reading Chinese Transnationalisms (2006). She was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Professional Writers in 2005. Her memoir, Pilgrimages: Memories of Colonial Macau and Hong Kong, will be published by Hong Kong UP in 2

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (Asian) (Asian-American) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (Colonial) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Europe) (Exploration) (Feminism) (Fiction) (German) (Life Writing) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism) (Travel)

Email:annen@athabascau.ca

Phone:780 464-4235

Fax:780 467-6731

Website:http://www.athabascau.ca/cll/staff/nothof.htm

Address:90 Beauvista Drive, Sherwood Park, Alberta, T8A 3X1, Canada

Institution:Athabasca University

Bio:Anne Nothof is a professor of English at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada, where she has developed and taught undergraduate and post-graduate distance education courses in literature and drama. She has published critical essays in journals such as Theatre Research in Canada, Modern Drama, Mosaic, and the International Journal of Canadian Studies, and in two texts on postmodern theatre: Siting the Other, and Crucible of Cultures. She has edited a collection of essays on Canadian playwright, Sharon Pollock for Guernica Press, a collection of Pollock’s plays for NeWest Press, a collection of critical essays on Canadian drama, and an anthology of Alberta plays, both for Playwrights Canada Press (2008). In 2008 she also edited a special issue of Canadian Theatre Review on Alberta theatre. Her essays on Canadian drama appear in the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (2009) and the Camden History of Literature in Canada (2009). She is a board member and editor for NeWest Press in Edmonton, and for AU Press, and past president of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. For twelve years, she hosted a weekly radio programme on drama, and developed a television series on world theatre. More recently she has assumed the editorial responsibility for the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia on the World Wide Web (www.canadiantheatre.com).

Fields of Interest:(British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Drama & Theatre) (Feminism) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial)

Email:panofsky@ryerson.ca

Phone:416 979 5000 ext. 6150

Fax:416 979 5110

Address:Department of English, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3

Institution:Ryerson University

Bio:Ruth Panofsky is Professor of English at Ryerson University. She teaches courses on Canadian literature and culture, authorship and publishing, and women's writing, as well as a graduate seminar in Communication Research and Practice. Her primary areas of research include Canadian Literature and Culture; Authorship; Book History and Print Culture; Editorial and Textual Studies; and Jewish Canadian Women Writers. She is also a published poet.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Publishing) (Women's Writing)

Email:theatrefractal@yahoo.ca

Phone:(819) 532-2569

Address:1991 chemin Principal, St-Mathieu-du-Parc, Quebec, G0X 1N0, Canada

Institution:Théâtre fractal

Bio:Eric Paul Parent réside à St-Mathieu-du-Parc où il consacre le plus clair de son temps aux jeux immersifs.  Il détient un Doctorat en études et pratiques des arts de l’Université du Québec à Montréal.  

Fields of Interest:(Drama & Theatre)

Email:npedri@mun.ca

Phone:(709)737-8067

Address:Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of English, Room AA3056, St. John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7, Canada

Institution:Memorial University of Newfoundland

Bio:I am a comparatist who works on the use of photography (and other visual documents) in contemporary fiction. A particular field of interest is auto/biographical narratives and historical fiction.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Contemporary) (Historical Fiction) (Life Writing) (Multimedia) (Postcolonial)

Email:pell@twu.ca

Phone:(604)826-0851

Address:Trinity Western University, 7600 Glover Road, Langley, British Columbia, V2Y 1Y1, Canada

Institution:Trinity Western University

Bio:Barbara Pell, a Professor specialising in Canadian literature, taught in the Department of English at Trinity Western University for 21 years. Her books include Portrait of the Artist: Ernest Buckler’s “The Mountain and the Valley” and Faith and Fiction: A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan. She has also published numerous articles on religion and Canadian literature, including the entry on “Religion and Canadian Literature” for the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada and the article on “Contemporary Canadian Religious Novels: Postmodern Faith and Fiction” for the International Journal of Canadian Studies.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Poetry)

Email:jpenbert@capilanou.ca

Phone:604-986-1911 ext 2431

Address:Capilano College, Fir Building Room 464, Vancouver, British Columbia, V7J 3H5, Canada

Institution:Capilano College

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (American) (British) (Criticism) (Poetry)

Email:odfpercy@ucalgary.ca

Address:Dept. of English, University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, AB T2N 1N4

Institution:University of Calgary

Bio:Owen Percy is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Language) (Long Poem) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Music) (Parody) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Quebec) (Regionalism) (Satire) (Transnationalism) (War)

Email:Russell.Perkin@smu.ca

Phone:(902)420-5714

Fax:(902)420-5110

Website:http://husky1.smu.ca/~rperkin/

Address:Saint Mary's University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada

Institution:Saint Mary's University

Bio:J. Russell Perkin teaches English at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. He is primarily a Victorianist, but has also worked extensively on Northrop Frye and published numerous reviews of Canadian fiction, especially from the Atlantic region.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Fiction)

Email:tpickens@ucla.edu

Address:350 Humanities Building Box 951536 Los Angeles, California, 90095-1536, USA

Institution:University of California, Los Angeles

Bio:Theri Pickens graduated from Princeton University in 2005. Currently, she's a doctoral student at UCLA in the department of Comparative Literature. She's interested in Arab American literature, African American literature, theory and disability studies.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Satire) (Short Stories) (Speculative Fiction)

Email:2rap@queensu.ca

Address:Queen's Univesity, Department of English, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada

Institution:Queen's Univesity

Fields of Interest:(Contemporary) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Regionalism)

Email:bpratt@uwo.ca

Institution:The University of Western Ontario

Bio:Brooke Pratt is a PhD candidate with the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario, specializing in Canadian literature and literary history. Her thesis research focuses on representations of abandoned space in Canadian writing from Confederation to the contemporary period.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Architecture) (Canadian Studies) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (Fiction) (History) (Poetry) (Short Stories)

Email:sprutean@uwo.ca

Address:University of Western Ontario, French Department, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Diaspora Studies) (France) (Francophone) (Publishing) (Quebec) (Travel)

Email:neil.querengesser@concordia.ab.ca

Phone:(780)479-9364

Address:Concordia University College of Alberta, 7128 Ada Boulevard, Edmonton, Alberta, T5B 4E4, Canada

Institution:Concordia University College of Alberta

Bio:Neil Querengesser is Professor of English at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton. His most recent publication, with Dr. Jean Horton, is an authoritative edition of of Dry Water (U of Ottawa P), Robert Stead's final novel.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Fiction) (Modern) (Poetry) (Postcolonial)

Email:4leq1@queensu.ca

Address:English Department, Queen's University, Watson Hall, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6

Institution:Queen's University

Bio:Linda Quirk is a PhD candidate at Queen's University. She has published articles on E. Pauline Johnson and on Sara Jeannette Duncan. She is currently writing a PhD dissertation entitled “Women’s Work: The Performance of Authorial Identity in English Canada, 1880–1920,” which explores the material and performative elements of the careers of the first generation of female authors in Canada able to earn a living by the pen.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Publishing)

Email:nraci060@uottawa.ca

Institution:Université d'Ottawa

Bio:Noële Racine est actuellement doctorante au Département de français de l'Université d'Ottawa.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (Drama & Theatre) (France) (Poetry) (Quebec)

Email:raglon@gmail.com

Website:http://www.sfu.ca/igs/becky.html

Address:RR #1 Box E-37, Bowen Island, British Columbia, V0N 1V0, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Rebecca Raglon is the author of a book of short stories entitled The Gridlock Mechanism (Quarry Press) and an edited volume entitled This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment (UBC Press). She is also editor of the online Journal of Ecocriticism (JoE).

Fields of Interest:(Ecocriticism) (Nature Writing)

Email:arauwerda@goucher.edu

Phone:(410) 337-6218

Address:

Goucher College, English Department, 1021 Dulaney Valley Rd, Baltimore MD 21218, USA

Institution:Goucher College

Fields of Interest:(Contemporary) (Postcolonial)

Email:ravv@videotron.ca

Phone:(514)848-2065

Fax:(514)848-4541

Address:Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada

Institution:Concordia University

Bio:Norman Ravvin is a critic, fiction writer, and journalist. His essays on Canadian and American Jewish literature are collected in A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory (McGill-Queen’s). The essays included in this volume focus on such writers as Eli Mandel, Leonard Cohen, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Mordecai Richler, and Chava Rosenfarb. A House of Words also considers the role of multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and the Holocaust in the reception of Canadian writing. He is co-editor of The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader (2004), which includes two essays by him, focusing on Eli Mandel and Matt Cohen. His most recent fiction publication is the novel, Lola by Night (2003), which is out in Serbian translation . Other books include Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue (2001), the novel, Café des Westens, which appeared in 1991, and his story collection, Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish (1997). He is the editor of Not Quite Mainstream: Canadian Jewish Short Stories (2001) and Great Stories of the Sea (1999). Recent articles include an essay on “memory tourism” in Poland in Canadian Literature, a chapter on Jewish identity in a collection called Religion and Ethnicity in Canada, and an introduction to the reissue of Gwethalyn Graham’s Earth and High Heaven from Cormorant Books. He is at work on a novel set in Poland, and a study of postwar Jewish identity in Canada and South Africa. As general editor of a series in association with Red Deer Press at the University of Calgary and the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, he oversees the publication of books dedicated to Canadian Jewish writing and history. Among the publications from the Institute is Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind, by Joel Yanofsky. Norman Ravvin acted as editor of this study, which won a number of awards in Canada and the United States. The forthcoming title from the Institute and Red Deer Press is Henry Kreisel's 1948 novel, The Rich Man, with a new introduction by Ravvin. He also oversees two chapbook series published by the Institute, which focus on Canadian Jewish literature and history. The titles in these series include a long short story by Toronto writer Cary Fagan, and a translation of a document dealing with early Montreal Jewish history, by Ira Robinson. His fiction and non-fiction pieces have appeared in Prism International, The West Coast Review, The Wascana Review, Prairie Fire, Cité Libre, Western Living, Parchment, The Forward in New York City, and the Nelson Introduction to Literature, as well as on CBC Radio. Before joining the Department of Religion at Concordia University, he taught literature and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick and at the University of Toronto. Norman Ravvin’s teaching interests include Canadian Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Religion and Literature, Ethics, Contemporary Canadian and American Literature, memoir and creative writing.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Europe) (Fiction) (History) (Multicultural) (Quebec) (War)

Email:srhodesmx@yahoo.ca

Phone:613 234 7304

Address:408 Preston Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 4M9, Canada

Bio:Shane Rhodes lives in Ottawa. Winner of an Alberta Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Award, Shane’s poetry is featured in the anthologies New Canadian Poetry, Breathing Fire II, and Seminal: Canada’s Gay Male Poets. Shane' s most recent book is The Bindery, published by NeWest Press in 2007.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Canadian Studies) (Gay & Lesbian) (Long Poem) (Modern) (Poetry) (Postcolonial)

Email:robbierichardson@shaw.ca

Address:1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9, Canada

Institution:McMaster University

Bio:Robbie Richardson is a PhD Candidate in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His dissertation is focused primarily on eighteenth-century British representations of First Nations people, and the ways in which those representations affected British and Anglo-North American identity and culture. His most recent publication is a chapter in the forthcoming book Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture, 1750-1859: The Indian Atlantic, published by Cambridge University Press. Robbie is a member of Pabineau First Nation in New Brunswick.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (British) (Colonial) (First Nations) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing)

Email:c.rifkind@uwinnipeg.ca

Phone:(204)786-9198

Address:University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, Canada

Institution:University of Winnipeg

Bio:Candida Rifkind is an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg. She works on modernisms and anti-modernisms in Canada, popular and political writing, and graphic narratives. Her book, Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada, was recently published by the University of Toronto Press. She is currently working on a manuscript about serial fiction and modern Canada and her next project is on graphic narratives of political witness.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Culture) (Feminism) (Films) (Modern) (Politics) (Publishing) (Transnationalism)

Email:Laura.Robinson@rmc.ca

Phone:613-541-6000 ext 6253

Address:Royal Military College, PO Box 17,000 Stn Forces, Kingston, Ontario, K7K 7B4, Canada

Institution:Royal Military College

Bio:Laura Robinson is an associate professor at the Royal Military College and has published articles on L.M. Montgomery, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Margaret Atwood, among others. Her short fiction has appeared in Wascana Review, torquere, Frontiers, her circle, and Entertext.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Feminism) (Gay & Lesbian) (Life Writing) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:jason.rotstein@gmail.com, poetry@jewishquarterly.org

Website:http://www.kilimag.com, www.jewishquarterly.org

Address:48 Saguenay Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5N 2Y7, Canada

Institution:Visiting Scholar, Massey College, University of Toronto

Bio:Jason Rotstein is Poetry Editor of the Jewish Quarterly and Associate Editor of Kilimanjaro, an art magazine, based in London, England. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Massey College at the University of Toronto and his book reviews are regularly featured in Canada in the Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Art) (Auto/biography) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Education) (Europe) (Exploration) (Fiction) (Films) (German) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Journalism) (Language) (Life Writing) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Parody) (Poetry) (Politics) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Short Stories)

Email:wendy.roy@usask.ca

Address:University of Saskatchewan, 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5A5, Canada

Institution:University of Saskatchewan

Bio:Wendy Roy is an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan who is researching Canadian popular series fiction of the early twentieth century. She has previously published essays and a book on women's travel writing in Canada (Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel, 2005), as well as a number of essays on contemporary Canadian fiction, especially by Carol Shields.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Cultural Geography) (Exploration) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Life Writing) (Postcolonial) (Travel) (Women's Writing)

Email:rupraisp@gmail.com

Institution:York University

Bio:She holds a B.A in Education and B.A (Hon) from the University of Winnipeg and an M.A in English Literature from the University of Calgary. She is a published poet; her work has been included in two anthologies, Exposed and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets. Currently, she is doing her PhD in Humanities at York University.

Fields of Interest:(Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (Films) (First Nations) (Gay & Lesbian) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (South Asian)

Email:sebastien.sacre@utoronto.ca

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:Former MA student of "Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis" France, where he specialized in English and American science-fiction and fantastic literature. Sebastien Sacre is currently student and instructor at the University Of Toronto, in the 4th year of his Doctoral Thesis on the study of myths and identity in French Caribbean novels

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (American) (Contemporary) (Culture) (Fiction) (Folklore) (Francophone) (Myth) (Postcolonial) (Science Fiction)

Email:deborah.saidero@uniud.it

Website:http://ccc@uniud.it

Address:Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures Via Mantica, 3 33100 Udine, Italy

Institution:University of Udine, Italy

Bio:Deborah Saidero teaches English at the University of Udine, Italy. She holds a PhD in Literatures and Cultures of the English-speaking countries from the University of Bologna. Her research has focused on contemporary Canadian women's writing, from a mainly feminist perspective. She has published various essays on writers such as Jane Urquhart, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk, Ann Maire MacDonald, Genni Gunn, and Dore Michelut, in which she explores issues connected to female identity, the quest motif, multi- and transcultural/ ethnic identities, language, plurilingualism and translation.She has edited a collection of essays on Janice Kulyk Keefer's writing for the Guernica writer's series (forthcoming). More recently she has focused her attention on the Canadian school of translation and is preparing a collection of essays on feminist translation theory in Canada for the Italian market (including essays by Barbara Godard, Kathy Mezei, Sherry Simon, Louise von Flutow and Alessandra Capperdoni).

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Language) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Myth) (North, The) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Short Stories) (Transnationalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:judith.saltman@ubc.ca

Phone:(604)822-4448

Fax:(604)822-6006

Website:http://www.slais.ubc.ca/USERS/ccib/index.html

Address:School of Library, Archival & Information Studies,University of British Columbia,Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Suite 470, 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Judith Saltman teaches at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival & Information Studies.

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Publishing) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:mooksang@unbc.ca

Fields of Interest:

Email:niigon@interchange.ubc.ca

Phone:(204) 999-5192

Address:University of British Columbia, Department of English, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Niigonwedom J. Sinclair is a graduate of the Native American Literatures program at the University of Oklahoma and is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. His dissertation is entitled An Anishnaabeg Literary History. Niigon is originally from Ste. Peter’s (Little Peguis) Indian Reserve in Manitoba, Canada and is a member of the Three Fires Midéwiwin Lodge. His creative work has appeared in Prairie Fire and Tales from Mocassin Avenue: An Anthology of Native Stories. His scholarly work will appear in three upcoming critical texts with Broadview Press, Michigan State University Press, and Wilfred Laurier Press. He also writes a monthly column entitled Birchbark Bitings in Urban NDN, Winnipeg’s alternative Aboriginal newspaper.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (American) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (Politics)

Email:roseleid@telus.net

Phone:(604) 561-7782

Address:R.R. #1, AR-6 Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0

Bio:Hendrik Slegtenhorst is the Chief Administrative Officer of Bowen Island Municipality, British Columbia, and former chief administrative officer of the Town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick. He is a former director of the Vancouver Museum. His senior appointments in post-secondary adult education included that of registrar of Alberta's Athabasca University and of director of administration and planning at York University's Atkinson College. His corporate work as a developmental and training specialist in compensation, human resources, and information technology was at the international head offices of Alcan Aluminium in Montréal and Turbo Resources in Calgary.

Fields of Interest:(Poetry)

Email:deafcatlane@uniserve.com

Website:http://vancouverjazz.com/bsmith/

Bio:For biography see: http://vancouverjazz.com/bsmith/

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (Contemporary) (Journalism) (Music)

Email:klsn@shaw.ca

Address:1896 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Kim Snowden teaches women's studies and literature at UBC. She is the co-founder and chief co-editor of thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Education) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Films) (Media Studies) (Modern) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Short Stories) (South Asian)

Email:psocken@uwaterloo.ca

Phone:(519)885-4567 ext.32426

Fax:(519)725-0554

Address:University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

Institution:University of Waterloo

Bio:Paul G. Socken is Professor in the Department of French Studies of the University of Waterloo. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Gabrielle Roy and French-Canadian literature

Fields of Interest:(Francophone) (Myth)

Email:ssomers@shaw.ca

Address:c/o English Department

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Sean Somers recently completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia. His monograph, now under review with an academic publisher, examines Irish-Japanese literary networks as  developed in the modernist period.  He currently teaches in the English Department at UBC, when not playing shakuhachi or watching baseball. Recent publications include studies on Yukio Mishima, contemporary tattoo art and occultism in Japan, and translations of Taneda Santôka.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (Asian) (Colonial) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Ecocriticism) (Folklore) (Language) (Poetry) (Speculative Fiction) (Transnationalism)

Email:ssorensen@cmu.ca

Phone:(204)487-3300 ext.640

Address:Canadian Mennonite University, 500 Shaftesbury Boulevard, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3P 2N2, Canada

Institution:Canadia Mennonite University

Bio:Sue Sorensen is Assistant Professor of English at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg and the editor of West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature (CMU Press).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (Films) (Modern) (Music) (Poetry) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Short Stories)

Email:reecesteinberg@gmail.com

Bio:Reece Steinberg is a librarian based in Vancouver. His literary interests include British Columbian history, mapping, natural history, food and health studies, world travel, punk zines, and many genres of fiction. He has enjoyed writing media reviews for Canadian publications for a few years.

Fields of Interest:(Art) (Canadian Studies) (Ecocriticism) (Exploration) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Food Studies) (Gay & Lesbian) (German) (History) (Maritime) (Music) (Nature Writing) (North, The) (Publishing) (Speculative Fiction) (Travel)

Email:csugars@uottawa.ca

Phone:(613)562-5800 ext.1140

Fax:(613)562-5990

Website:http://www.english.uottawa.ca/faculty/csugars.html

Address:Dept. of English, 70 Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 6N5

Institution:University of Ottawa

Bio:Cynthia Sugars is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of numerous articles on Canadian literature and has edited three collections of essays on Canadian literature and postcolonial theory: Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism (Broadview, 2004); Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature (University of Ottawa Press, 2004); and Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2009). She is also the co-editor, with Laura Moss, of a new two-volume historical anthology of Canadian literature, entitled Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts, published by Pearson/Penguin in 2009. 

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Criticism) (Culture) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (Maritime) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing)

Email:lszabo@ualberta.ca

Address:University of Alberta, 3-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 3E5, Canada

Institution:University of Alberta

Bio:Lisa Szabo is a PhD student in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is also Co-Editor of the online publication for the Association of Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada (ALECC), The Goose.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Ecocriticism) (First Nations) (Life Writing) (Media Studies) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism)

Email:rthacker@stlawu.edu

Phone:315.229.5970

Fax:315.229.7451

Address:23 Romoda Drive Canton, New York 13617 USA

Institution:St. Lawrence University

Bio:Robert Thacker, who teaches in the Canadian Studies program as well as the English department, specializes in Canadian literature in English with particular interest in Canada-U.S. literary comparisons, western writing, Willa Cather, and Alice Munro. His books include The Great Prairie Fact and Literary Imagination, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, and several edited volumes on Willa Cather, the West, and Alice Munro. Recent publications include an essay on Atwood, Munro, and other women writers for The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature and essays on Cather and Munro in various collections. From 1994-2002 Thacker edited The American Review of Canadian Studies.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (American) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Exploration) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Life Writing) (Modern) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Short Stories)

Email:news@theytus.com

Phone:2504937181

Fax:2504935302

Website:http://www.theytus.com

Fields of Interest:(First Nations) (Publishing)

Email:thibeaj@umoncton.ca

Phone:506-858-4528

Address:University of Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, E1A 3E9, Canada

Institution:University of Moncton

Bio:Jimmy Thibeault est chercheur postdoctoral au Département d’études françaises de l’Université de Moncton. Son projet, pour lequel il a reçu une bourse du CRSH, porte sur le discours identitaire de l’arrivant dans le roman francophone du Canada.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Diaspora Studies) (Quebec)

Email:jthorpe@interchange.ubc.ca

Address:Department of History University of British Columbia Room 1297, 1873 East Mall Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z1

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:I am a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. I am interested in postcolonial and social nature scholarship and in critical studies of the nation.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Postcolonial)

Email:norahokkai@gmail.com

Institution:University of Vienna

Bio:Nora Tunkel is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vienna.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Fiction) (Films) (Historical Fiction) (Poetry) (Quebec) (Transnationalism)

Email:Hilary.Turner@ufv.ca

Phone:(604) 826-2506

Address:33246 Best Avenue, Mission, British Columbia, V2V 5R9, Canada

Institution:University of the Fraser Valley

Bio:Hilary Turner teaches English, Rhetoric, and Children’s Literature at the University of the Fraser Valley.

Fields of Interest:(Auto/biography) (Children's) (Criticism) (History) (Language) (Poetry) (Satire) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:elisabeth.tutschek@gmx.at

Bio:current project: PhD entitled "Dimension lapsisée: Revised subjectivity in Québécois women's narratives

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Culture) (Feminism) (Francophone) (Gay & Lesbian) (Language) (Latin America) (Quebec) (Transnationalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:katrin.urschel@gmail.com

Phone:+353-86-2401172

Website:http://www.geocities.com/katrinurschel1

Address:Department of English NUI Galway University Road Galway Ireland

Institution:National University of Ireland, Galway

Bio:Originally from Germany, Katrin Urschel is a PhD student at the National University of Ireland, writing her dissertation about ethnic identity in Irish-Canadian literature. She teaches undergraduate courses in the Department of English. Her published and forthcoming articles relate to Ireland, Canada and questions of identity.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Europe) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (German) (History) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Politics) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing) (Transnationalism) (Travel)

Email:ac_valente_ca@yahoo.ca

Phone:416 545 9433

Institution:Athabasca University

Bio:MA Applied Linguistics (Language & Literature) Phd Candidate in Linguistics (stylistics, code switching and ethnic literature)

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Language) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Short Stories) (Transnationalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:Sylvie.Vranckx@ulb.ac.be

Phone:0032 (0)2 650 38 11

Fax:0032 (0)2 650 24 50

Address:50 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt CP 175 1050 Brussels Belgium

Institution:Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Bio:Undergraduate in English and Dutch Languages and Literatures from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels). Master of Arts in English at the University of British Columbia. PhD student in English at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow. Published in the Zeitschrift für Kanada-studien and Etudes canadiennes.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Asian-Canadian) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Gay & Lesbian) (Life Writing) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Short Stories)

Email:pwakeham@uwo.ca

Phone:(519) 661-2111 x.85815

Fax:(519) 661-3776

Website:http://www.uwo.ca/english/site/fcltypgs/wakeham.html

Address:c/o Dept. of English University College, Rm. 173 The University of Western Ontario London, ON N6A 3K7

Institution:The University of Western Ontario

Bio:Pauline Wakeham is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Taxidermic Signs: Reconstructing Aboriginality (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and of articles in journals such as English Studies in Canada and the Canadian Review of American Studies.

Fields of Interest:(Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (First Nations) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:annefwalker@gmail.com

Institution:University of California

Bio:Anne F. Walker is a Canadian poet whose recent books include Into the Peculiar Dark and The Exit Show. Her Ph.D. in Urban Poetics is from the University of California, Berkeley.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Poetry) (Publishing)

Email:emily.wall@uas.alaska.edu

Phone:(907)796-6113

Website:http://www.emily-wall.com

Address:PO Box 22801, Juneau, Alaska, 99802, USA

Institution:University of Alaska Southeast

Bio:Emily Wall teaches creative writing at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, Alaska. Her new book of poems, Freshly Rooted has just come out from the Irish press Salmon Poetry.

Fields of Interest:(Contemporary) (Poetry)

Email:percy_walton@carleton.ca

Phone:(613)520-2600 ext.2322

Fax:(613)520-3544

Address:Carleton University, 1807 Dunton Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada

Institution:Carleton University

Fields of Interest:(American) (Diaspora Studies) (First Nations) (Transnationalism)

Email:kmwarder@hotmail.com

Address:209-174 King Street, London, Ontario, N6A 1C6, Canada

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Bio:Kristen Warder is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Western Ontario (ABD).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Architecture) (Art) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Ecocriticism) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Gay & Lesbian) (Life Writing) (Maritime) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Regionalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:warren_nathalie@yahoo.ca

Phone:(549)204-8902

Address:#603, 655 Windermere Road, London, Ontario, N5X 2W8, Canada

Bio:Née à Montréal en 1974, j'ai fait des études collégiales en Lettres, puis j'ai passé quelques années à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières flânant entre les départements de philosophie et d'arts plastiques. On a pu lire mes poèmes, nouvelle et comptes rendus littéraires dans les revues Art Le Sabord, Moebius (Québec), Canadian Literature (Canada) et Étoiles d'Encre (France).

Fields of Interest:(Art) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction) (Long Poem) (Poetry) (Quebec)

Email:andrea.wasylow@usask.ca

Phone:(306)966-6757

Address:University of Saskatchewan, St. Thomas More College, 1437 College Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0W6, Canada

Institution:St. Thomas More College

Bio:Andrea Wasylow-Ducasse teaches for the Department of English at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Poetry) (Postcolonial)

Email:pwebb@alcor.concordia.ca

Phone:514-848-2424 ext. 2321

Address:1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, QC H3G 1M8

Institution:Concordia University

Bio:Peter Webb is an Assistant Professor of English, specializing in modern and contemporary Canadian Literature, at Concordia University. He is a former SSHRC doctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa. His peer-reviewed articles on Sara Jeannette Duncan, Timothy Findley, and Tom Thomson appear in collections from DeGruyter Press and University of Ottawa Press, and in the Journal of Canadian Studies. His review articles on such authors as Elizabeth Brewster, Leonard Cohen, David Helwig, and Robert Kroetsch appear in the Journal of Canadian Poetry. His chapter on Eli Mandel and Edward McCourt will appear in the forthcoming Literary History of Saskatchewan. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Shattered Lines: War in the Canadian Novel, a critical study of war novels published since 1914, and is beginning work on an edition of Mandel’s selected poems. Dr. Webb is a member of ACCUTE and ALCQ-ACQL. (late updated: January 2010)

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (Films) (Modern) (Poetry) (War)

Email:agnesw@yorku.ca

Phone:514 489-8953

Address:Department of English N832A Ross Building York University Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Institution:York University

Bio:Agnes Whitfield - Biographical Note Born in Peterborough, Ontario in 1951, Agnes Whitfield studied French and Québec literature at Queen's University, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne and Université Laval (Ph. D., 1981). She worked as a professional translator with the Canadian Secretary of State Translation Bureau (1976-1980), and taught translation and Québec literature, at Queen's University (1980-1990), and since 1990, at York University, where she chaired the School of Translation (1992-1996), and is now Professor of English and French. Agnes Whitfield is the author of Le Je(u) illocutoire. Forme et contestation dans le roman québécois contemporain (Presses de l'Université Laval, 1987), co-editor of Critique et littérature québécoise (Tryptique, 1992), La Nouvelle: écriture(s) et lecture(s) (XYZ, 1993), and La Francophonie ontarienne : bilan et perspectives de recherche (Le Nordir, 1995), and editor of Le Métier du double. Portraits de traducteurs et traductrices francophones (Fides, Collection du CRILCQ, 2005), short-listed for the Canadian Federation of the Humanities Raymond-Klibansky Prize, and Writing Between the Lines. Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006). She has published over fifty articles on contemporary Québec and Canadian fiction, literary translation, and the theory of translation in journals including Voix et images, Études canadiennes, Québec français, Méta, Lettres québécoises, Queen's Quarterly, and Canadian Literature, as well as in edited volumes and International Conference Proceedings. Since 2002, she is the translation review editor for the University of Toronto Quarterly. Short-listed in 1991 for the Governor General's Award for Divine Diva, her translation of Daniel Gagnon's novel, Venite a cantare, Agnes Whitfield is an accredited member of the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario and the Literary Translators Association of Canada. As President of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies for two mandates (1995-1999), she signed a Research Exchange Agreement with the European Society for Translation Studies, and created the Canadian Vinay-Darbelnet Awards in translation studies. Her works of poetry include: Ô cher Émile je t'aime ou l'heureuse mort d'une Gorgone anglaise racontée par sa fille (Le Nordir, 1993), Où dansent les nénuphars (Le Nordir, 1995), and Et si les sirènes ne chantaient plus (Écrits des Forges, 2001). Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna's Centro di Studi Québecchesi in May 2003, she was Seagram Visiting Chair at the McGill University Institute for the Study of Canada (2003-2004). As SSHRCC/Heritage Canada virtual scholar (2006-2007), she carried out national surveys of university professors, librarians, publishers and booksellers in English and French, to assess the contribution of literary translation to linguistic duality in Canada. With SSHRC funding, she is presently working on a book on Hannah Josephson, the American translator of Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion, and a bibliographical tool to facilitate literary exchange between Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Romania.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Culture) (Feminism) (Francophone) (Quebec) (Short Stories)

Email:pgstudies@emsah.uq.edu.au

Address:University of Queensland, School of English, Brisbane, Queensland, 4067, Australia

Institution:University of Queensland

Bio:Gillian Whitlock is Professor of English at the University of Queensland in Australia.  Her most recent book is a study of life narrative and the ‘war on terror’: Soft Weapons.  Autobiography in Transit, published by Chicago in 2007.

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Email:dwillms@cc.umanitoba.ca

Phone:(204)474-8535

Fax:(204)474-9720

Address:St Paul's College, University of Manitoba, 70 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2M6, Canada

Institution:St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba

Bio:David Williams is a novelist and Professor of English at St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba. In addition to an early monograph on Faulkner, his critical books are Confessional Fictions: A Portrait of the Artist in the Canadian Novel and Imagined Nations: Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction. His forthcoming book Media, Memory, and the First World War completes his larger project of rethinking Harold Innis on the bias of communication. His novels, comprising the Lacjardin Trilogy, are The Burning Wood; The River Horsemen; and Eye of the Father.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (American) (Auto/biography) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Life Writing) (Media Studies) (Modern) (War)

Email:rwong@eciad.ca

Phone:604.844.3800 (Emily Carr University)

Fax:604.844.3801

Website:http://blogs.eciad.ca/ritawong/

Address:c/o Emily Carr University 1399 Johnston St. Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9

Institution:Emily Carr University

Bio:Rita Wong is the author of monkeypuzzle (Press Gang 1998), forage (Nightwood 2007), and sybil unrest (co-written with Larissa Lai, Line Books 2008). A recipient of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writer Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, she teaches in Critical + Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Fields of Interest:(Asian) (Asian-American) (Asian-Canadian) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Diaspora Studies) (Ecocriticism) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Food Studies) (Gay & Lesbian) (Language) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Poetry) (Politics) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:mal.woodland@utoronto.ca

Phone:(416)946-3456

Fax:416-978-2836

Address:Department of English, University of Toronto 6th Floor, Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George St. Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:
Malcolm Woodland is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Toronto.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Poetry)

Email:eewunker@ucalgary.ca

Phone:(403)202-1723

Address:2520 17th St SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2G 3V9, Canada

Institution:University of Calgary

Bio:Erin Wunker recently defended her PhD at the University of Calgary, where she currently teaches as a sessional instructor. Her work concerns contemporary Canadian women’s writing and performance, and concepts of feminist archives.

Fields of Interest:(21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Gay & Lesbian) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Politics) (Transnationalism)

Email:Herb.Wyile@acadiau.ca

Phone:902-585-1255

Fax:902-585-1070

Address:Dept. of English Acadia University Wolfville, NS Canada B4P 2R6

Institution:Acadia University

Bio:Herb Wyile is a Professor of English at Acadia University. He has published articles on regionalism, postmodernism, Atlantic-Canadian literature, and historical fiction, among other topics. He is the author of Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History (2002) and Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction (2007). He co-edited, with Jeanette Lynes, Surf's Up! The Rising Tide of Atlantic-Canadian Literature, a special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature (2008). He is currently working on a website on contemporary Atlantic-Canadian literature. http://english.acadiau.ca/waterfrontviews/

Fields of Interest:(Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Maritime) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism)

Email:andrewk.yang@utoronto.ca

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:Andrew Yang is currently writing his PhD on critical multiculturalism and fantasy literature in America.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Asian) (Asian-American) (Culture) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Speculative Fiction) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:yuans@shaw.ca

Phone:778/371-0952

Address:161 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Y 2Z7 Canada

Institution:independent scholar

Bio:Changming Yuan grew up in central rural China and authored three books on language and translation before immigrating to Canada. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, Yuan currently works as an independent tutor of College English in Vancouver. Since the summer of 2005, Yuan has had poetry published or forthcoming in nearly 200 literary journals/anthologies worldwide, which include Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry (2009), Canadian Literature, the Cortland Review, CV2, Descant, Exquisite Corpse, Istanbul Literary Review, LRC, the London Magazine, New Quarterly, Nthposition, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, Queen's Quarterly, Southern Ocean Review, Taj Mahal Review and Windsor Review. Yuan's debut, full-length collection Chansons of a Chinaman became available at leafgardenpress.com in September 2009, and his monograph Politics and Poetics: A Comparative Study of John Keats and Li He has recently been released by LAP (Germany).

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (Asian) (Culture) (Language) (Poetry)

Email:kzawada@ryerson.ca

Phone:416-979-5000 ext. 2743

Address:Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3, Canada

Institution:Ryerson University

Bio:Kinga A. Zawada teaches French language, culture and literature courses at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Drama & Theatre) (Education) (France) (Language)

Email:hjzhu@ualberta.ca

Address:Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Institution:University of Alberta

Bio:Julie studied Life Sciences in Human Biology and Anthropology. By writing poetries, she wishes to promote arts and humanity.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (British) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Multicultural) (Poetry)